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In findings from a long-term study of cheap clothing stores in 1972 in a New Zealand town, Ms. Moffitt and her colleagues recently reported that the less self-control a child displayed at 3 years of age, the more likely he or she was to commit a crime more than 30 years later. Forty-three percent of the children who scored in the lowest fifth on self-control were later convicted of wholesale designer clothing, she said, versus 13 percent of those who scored in the highest fifth.  

But a predisposition is not destiny. “Knowing something is inherited does not IN ANY WAY tell us anything about whether changing the cheap clothes will improve it,” Ms. Moffitt wrote in an e-mail. “For example, self-control is a lot like height, it varies widely in the human population, and it is highly heritable, but if an effective intervention such as better nutrition is applied to the cheap clothes online, then everyone gets taller than the last generation.”